Barstool After Dark has been chasing hole-in-ones on a golf course since Jersey Jerry's original 37-hour, 2,627-stroke quest turned into the show's origin story. Every season since, the bit has escalated -- two hole-in-ones, then three -- but nobody had tried taking the driver out of the equation entirely until this week, when the crew announced they wouldn't stop until they made one from 156 yards using nothing but a putter.
Nicky Smokes hypes up the shot as the group's leaderboard tracks attempts and greens hit for Tate, Smokes, Doitche and Oldie under a countdown clock.
The math on that quote is not exaggeration for effect -- Smokes isn't wrong that a 156-yard putt into a hole would be one of the more absurd shots in golf history, on a simulator or otherwise. OhioTate, who's been running point on the show since taking over hosting duties, summed up the mood himself, calling it flat out the worst idea the group has ever had. Coming from the guy who agreed to it, that's saying something.
Hank Lockwood, watching from the outside, laid out exactly why the hole they picked makes this borderline unwinnable: a front pin location and long grass sitting in the fairway leave basically no margin for error on a full-swing putter shot from that distance. He's not sticking around to see it through either -- he's got a flight back to Chicago and openly expects the stream to still be running when he lands.
A golfer in a yellow polo fires from the range toward a distant green as the on-screen tracker shows a growing pile of failed attempts and zero greens hit.
That's the running joke of the whole stream -- the bar has dropped so low that just landing a ball anywhere on the green gets a mock standing ovation from the tent. Lockwood also pointed out the physical toll here: full swings for hours on end are a different kind of exhausting than putting would be, and Tate reportedly trusted Lucas's judgment way too much when the group settled on this particular hole.
Fans piling on in the replies aren't exactly disagreeing that the deck is stacked. One popular gripe asked whether the original 156-yard putter record everyone's chasing was even set under comparable conditions -- downhill slope, soft fairway, forgiving pin -- versus the tightly manicured, front-pinned mess this crew is stuck grinding through. If the comparison doesn't hold up, this group could be out there a while.
Given the show's history of turning these bits into multi-hour, sometimes multi-day survival tests, nobody should be shocked if this one drags into the weekend. Big Cat already floated the idea of making Lucas swing too after Tate insisted he could pull the shot off -- which, if it happens, only raises the degree of difficulty on a challenge that's already got the whole crew questioning why they agreed to it in the first place.